Extension-bracket for garment-display cases.



PATENTED FEB. 18, 1908.

L.'W. WHLGH. I EXTENSION BRACKET FOR GARMENT DISPLAY GASES.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 5, 1907.

STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EXTENSION-BRACKET FOR GARMENT=DISPLAY CASES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 18, 1908 Application filed July 5. 1907- Serial No.382.220.

sion brackets disclosed in an application for Letters Patent of theUnited States filed by me April 24, 1907, #370050, in which I disclose agarment sup orting rod sustained by the extension brac 61 saidextensible rod serving for the purpose of providing extra space or roomfor the separation of the garments when the movable part of the bracketis drawn out from the case so that the garments will be more readilyaccessible and may be removed and replaced with greater facility.

The invention consists in the features, combination and arrangement ofarts hereinafter described, and particulary pointed out in the claims. 7

In the accompanying drawings,-Figure 1 is a side view of an extensionbracket, partly in section, embodying my improvement. Fig. 2 is a planview of the extensible portion of the garment supporting rod. Fig. 3 isa cross sectional view of the parts shown in Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a viewsimilar to Fig. 1 with the brackets and garment supporting rod fullyextended.

As in the bracket referred to above, I employ a hollow main rail, 1,which is secured within the display case in a manner similar to thatdescribed in the application referred to, and within this main railslides the bar 2 of the extension bracket, these parts being rectangularin cross section.

The garment supporting rod 3 is suspended from the bar 2 by brackets45,'the bracket 5, however, being attached at its upper end to asupplemental member 6 adapted to slide in the bar 7. The garmentsupporting rod is made up of two members 89, the latter telescoping inthe former.

IIeretofore, so far as I am aware, in extension brackets where thegarment supporting rod was formed of telescoping sections, an abruptshoulder occurs at the point where one section enters the other andconsequently an obstruction exists at this point to the free movement ofthe garment supporting hooks or members from the section of smallerdiameter on to the sectionzof larger diameter, necessitating specialcare in moving or adjusting the hangers along the garment supporting rodand requiring the liftipg of the hangers to avoid this abrupt shouler.

It is the object of my invention to provide means whereby asubstantially flush supporting surface will be presented to the hangersfrom end to end of the garment supporting rod, whether it be intelescoped position or distended. For this purpose I empl y a tongue orrib extending from the bracket 4 along the upper surface of thetelescoping .member 9 of the garment supporting rod and entering a slotformed. in the upper side of the hollow or outer member 8 of saidgarment supporting rod. This tongue 10 is formed at its end with anenlargement or head 11 of the same diameter as the width of the slot 12in the tubular member and this slot near the end of the tubular memberis contracted as shown at 13 so that it will permit the passage of thenarrow tongue but will act as a stop to the enlarged head of the tonguewhich will thus limit the movement of the extensible parts and preventtheir separation. The upper edge of the tongue is flush with the uppersurface of the tubular garment supporting member so that the garmenthooks or their supporting means may be moved from the unslotted portionof the garment supporting bar over the slotted portion without meetingany obstruction whatever, and in the latter position they will engagewith the upper surface of the rib or tongue and be sustained thereby ina plane coincident with that of the upper intact surface of the garmentsupporting rod and as this tongue extends all the way to the bracket 4 abearing surface will be afforded for the garment hooks or other supportswhich will extend throughout the length of the garment supporting rodand will be unbroken throughout, or in other words, will not present anyobstructions or shoulders to interfere with the free sliding movement ofthe garment supports or hooks.

I do not limit myself to the arrangement of this tongue or rib as thismay be combined with the parts in various Ways.

In order to prevent rubbing contact of the section 6 with the interiorof the section 2 I provide a roller at 13 bearing upon the cutdownportion 14 of the section 6 and as this section also bears upon a roll15 it will be free to slide without contact with the walls of thesection 2 and will not cut the same parassociated With the inner memberand Workticularly at its upper portion.

I claim as my invention:

1. In combination in a garment supporting rod, extensible members and atongue or rib associated with one member and moving in a slot in theother member and having its upper surface flush with the intact portionof the latter member, substantially as described.

2. In combination in a garment supporting rod, tWo members, one of Whichtelescopes in relation to the other, a rib or tongue ing in a slot inthe outer member, said slot having a contracted end and the said ribhaving an enlarged head to form a stop With said contracted end of theslot, substantially as described. y

In testimony whereof, -I affix my signature in presence of twoWitnesses.

LYh/IAN W. WELCH. Witnesses F. M. LEGGETT, MILLIE M. STOW.

